Steven Gerrard Quotes

Every season I think it's right every great team tries to improve the quality of the team.

Add a good player to our team? Absolutely.

We are always trying to improve our squad because football is dynamic.

I don't think enough players channel the energy of the crowd. If it's done properly, and you don't let anger overwhelm and distract you, it's like a shot of adrenaline in the arm, and it gets the crowd pumped up.

There's no club out there that is really a step up when you play for Bayern Munich. At most, you can join a club that acts at the same level.

My management skills are more suited to developing teams to be better than what they were before, and not just about avoiding relegation.

To improve teams like Newcastle, if you do the right things, it is enough to be stronger and bigger and compete.

It is not so easy to turn yourself into one of the big clubs in the Premier League and also the Champions League.

When I moved to Mississippi, I was playing in high school, and there wasn't a lot of talent around me. I figured out that I wasn't going to be able to get to the bucket a lot anymore.

If you've got an opportunity to improve your squad before a World Cup you must take it.

I'm not a top-five player yet. Maybe I'm close to it, but I still have to work on some aspects. You can only be part of that group if you are decisive in the top games.

I got Everton competing at the top end of the league with a midtable budget.

The intensity in the Premier League is a bit higher than most of the other leagues.

If you can get more team speed, I'm all for it.

The top clubs in the Premier League benefit very much from the fact that there are six teams on a very high level. They have so many games against each other so that they practically play Champions League the whole year. That helps them very much to persist in the international games.

I have some goals I'm looking to achieve, and one thing is to help the team win and move back up the ladder. This is vitally important to the team overall and to the supporters of West Indies cricket.

When you believe in one player to improve the squad, you have to do everything that is possible for us as a club to sign these players.

It's about the process. It's about getting better. 'Let's execute on this play, let's execute on this drive.' You do those things, and over the course of the season you'll get better as a team and you'll get to a point where hopefully you're playing at a high level to win the games that really become at another level.

We cannot win this World Cup, because we are not at that level yet. For us, we have to play the game of our lives seven times to win the tournament.

Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.

Even more important than statistics is then having the staff that can take the data and ensure it's presented in a way that improves individuals and teams.

If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.

Technology has certainly reduced performance differences among drivers. Whereas a talented driver could get a half-second out of every lap in the past, nowadays talent makes up for only about one or two tenths of a second. But the driver is still the key factor.